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How Vox built a huge YouTube presence, becoming an incubator that invented its own visual language, as ex-staffers like Johnny Harris grow their own channels (Simon Owens/The Long Story with Simon Owens)
https://thelongstory.substack.com/p/why-the-best-jour…

Why the best journalists on YouTube are all former Vox employees
The company became a skunk works incubator that invented its own language of visual storytelling.

On the Undecidability of Tiling the $3$-dimensional Space with a Set of $3$ Polycubes
Chao Yang, Zhujun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00192 https://arxi…

On the Undecidability of Tiling the $3$-dimensional Space with a Set of $3$ Polycubes
Translational tiling problems are among the most fundamental and representative undecidable problems in all fields of mathematics. Greenfeld and Tao obtained two remarkable results on the undecidability of translational tiling in recent years. One is the existence of an aperiodic monotile in a space of sufficiently large dimension. The other is the undecidability of translational tiling of periodic subsets of space with a single tile, provided that the dimension of the space is part of the inpu…

The Almighty Bear isn't giving up
https://bsky.app/profile/thealmightybear.bsky.social/post/3lt36zeu23k2f

Had a great, entirely unexpected experience with the State Troopers at a protest today in #Memphis. They showed up and parked nearby; we all figured they were itching for us to violate the new #Tennessee "PEACE Act" law (which restricts protests) so they could jam us up.
Then a MAGA came…

Investigation: preprint research papers on arXiv from 14 academic institutions in eight countries had hidden prompts telling AI tools to give positive reviews (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Techn

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

gleefully citing modest increases in revenue
without mentioning *exactly contemporary* increases in costs
a very special kind of truth-telling that is very close to lying

I am once again asking GHC devs to make it possible for tooling such as HLint and the Haskell Language Server to compile against multiple versions of GHC.
I realise that this is a gigantic undertaking, but if you're wondering why people don't stick with Haskell, it might be because every compiler version upgrade breaks *everything*.

Grok's going to need another re-write; it's telling the truth again...
White House broken-hearted post about Texas victims undercut by Musk chatbot - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-texas-flood-leavitt/

Hexagonal Tiling of the Plane
Ze Zhu, Erxiao Wang, Min Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01404 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01404…

Hexagonal Tiling of the Plane
Since the thesis of K. Reinhardt in 1918, it is well known that there are exactly three types of convex hexagons that can tile the plane. However, the proof of the fact is far from being complete. We prove this fact, under an assumption much weaker than the convexity.

this is basically "qu'ils mangent de la brioche" for the northeastern USA, isn't it
> the former chief executive and chairman of [massive stock broker] Cantor Fitzgerald also vowed to protect [Maine]’s lobster industry, telling the audience: “I love lobster”
https://ww…

GOP Senator Accidentally Reveals Howard Lutnick’s Tariff Ignorance
The heated exchange was the latest sign of growing impatience over the White House’s trade strategy.